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Archive for June, 2013

The Golden Hour

by Patrick Reed

Often it is the case these evening afternoons that I look up from the dinner table across the lake to the broad mountains which grace us here in SLO-town, California — and pose the question to my wife.

“Honey, what would you say to my—“

Before the words are out of my mouth, she finishes the question and answers it for me — in one loving sentence: “Go get your shoes on — get outta here!”

I do my best to help the kids for bed. Get them that coveted bowl of ice cream, lay out their toothbrushes, give them kisses goodnight and promises that I will look in on them when I am back from my run during ‘the golden hour.’

As a photographer, I am well-acquainted with the sublimity of the hour of light which casts golden-rimmed shadows a 100 times the…

One of the biggest problems that most people encounter as they move about their fat loss diet is hunger. You can be doing perfectly on your diet program and following it exactly as you should be but as soon as hunger creeps up, you immediately move off course.

Hunger is a very difficult thing to deal with for any individual on a weight loss diet but fortunately, if you take the time to learn the foods that tend to cause the greatest amount of hunger and then be sure to stay away from them, this doesn’t have to be a problem for you.

Let’s go over the top foods that cause hunger so you can see precisely what to avoid.

White Rice

The first food that could cause you to become very hungry shortly after eating it is white rice. The reason why this food is very problematic is because…

One thing I often tell clients and friends when it comes to learning how to eat is to take ownership in your education of food and look it up rather than rely on a nutritionist, meal plan, program or book to tell you what you should eat and the nutritional value of it.

We all get in the habit of mindlessly eating foods, healthy or not, without knowing what or why we are eating them!

So, my challenge is to take a moment to find out what your regular foods are doing for you, why you benefit from them (or not), and how much you actually need in a serving. Not just the grams of sugar, fat, or protein (which are important to be aware of and use wisely) but go deeper into what each food has in it and then how that translates to your life (ie. cancer fighting…